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By Shannon Young syoung@repub.com U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, spoke out Tuesday against the Trump Administration’s plan to replace Obama-era energy regulations with a rule that allows states to set their own guidelines to address emissions from coal-fired power plants. The senator, who has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump’s approach to energy and environmental issues, […] More »

U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is co-sponsoring Senate legislation mandating the U.S. Department of Commerce appropriate $5 million in grants annually over the next decade to help rebuild the populations of the imperiled North Atlantic right whales. The Senate bill co-sponsored by Markey and other senators closely mirrors a bill U.S. Rep Seth Moulton has filed […] More »

By Shannon Young syoung@repub.com U.S. Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts urged the Trump administration Monday to provide a list of all the migrant children and parents separated at the United States’ southern border under the White House’s “zero tolerance” approach to immigration. The Massachusetts Democrats joined other senators in asking Departments of Health and […] More »

By the Associated Press June 30, 2018 US Senator Edward Markey is joining a growing list of members of Massachusetts’s all-Democratic congressional delegation to head to the country’s southern border. Markey planned to visit detention and processing facilities in Port Isabel, McAllen, and Brownsville, Texas, over the weekend. While at the border, Markey planned to […] More »

By Edward J. Markey   July 06, 2018 The United States has a privacy problem. Sensitive consumer data are everywhere, and they are vulnerable. Just this year, we learned that two billion Facebook users’ information was harvested by bad actors. Hundreds of thousands of Delta Airlines travelers’ credit card information was breached. More than 150 […] More »

U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., came to Brockton Fire Station No. 6 on Friday to announce a $578,000 FEMA assistance to firefighters grant for the Brockton Fire Department. BROCKTON – The Fire Department is getting a boost from the federal government. Brockton is receiving a $578,000 firefighters assistance grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, […] More »

Democratic Senator Ed Markey called the meeting the “Helsinki Humiliation” and said it was an embarrassment. https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2018/07/16/treasonous-disgraceful-reaction-trump-press-conference-with-putin/QCCn84VeSNeHO6R4chYNNN/story.html More »

Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), for one, said Thursday that a weakening of federal robo-call rules means “powerful industries stand to benefit from increased bombarding of consumers with relatively inexpensive calls — calls for marketing, advertising, and debt collection.” “The formula is simple,” he said in a statement, “more inexpensive calls and less legal liability […] More »

Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Joe Kennedy are pushing a bill that would end the use of so-called “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses in federal court. The defenses refer to the argument in court that the revelation of a victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity provoked a violent reaction from a defendant that […] More »